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Winston S. Churchill | Step by Step. New York: G.P. Putnam’s Sons, 1939

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Winston S. Churchill

Step by Step. New York: G.P. Putnam’s Sons, 1939


8vo. Photographic frontispiece; a few instances of light creasing to interior pages. Original green cloth, original unclipped cream jacket printed and black and purple; some fading and shelfwear to jacket with some chipping to corners.


FIRST AMERICAN EDITION IN DUST JACKET


The chilling anthology of Churchill's prescient newspaper pieces for The Evening Standard and Daily Telegraph about the rising Nazi threat, commencing in 1936 with Hitler's reoccupation of the Rhineland, through the final months before the declaration of war in 1939.


REFERENCE:

Cohen A111.2; Woods A45b